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Re: Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written

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Post by kaolinite »

jdotjdot wrote: post #28
harel wrote: post #22

I use Chrome to Phone with my android phone. One click on a button sends the current url to my browser, or I can select any text, right click it and send it to my phone where it is then available on my clipboard to paste wherever. It also keeps a history of all this on my phone so I can recall what I sent last week. That feature alone is why I'll probably never own an iPhone. Edit: Still a cool extension you've got t…

This is exactly the kind of thing that Apple will likely implement one day as seamless integration is their speciality.

They haven't done anything with text yet but there's iCloud Tabs for URLs. Anything you have open in Safari is available on your iPhone/iPad too and anything on those devices is available by clicking the cloud icon in Safari.

Re: Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written

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Post by IgorPartola »

mseebach wrote: post #17
mef wrote: post #4

Great hack. Another way to get text quickly to your phone, if you have an iPhone, is to send yourself a message on Messages.

I just email myself. That works on any combination of computer/phone OSs :)

Can't do that with a password or other sensitive info.

I have a web server that only responds to requests from my LAN. I put sensitive info into an HTML file there, then point my phone's browser to it to copy/paste it; then I delete the info from the file. This way the data never leaves my LAN, which I believe is reasonably well protected.

Re: Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written

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Post by dmd »

franze wrote: post #16

if you like URL "hacking" you can do something like this http://miniqr.com/http://www.example.com/ http://miniqr.com/"hello world" does mostly the same as mentioned above, does this for i think now 4 years (i coded this on a beach in mexico, lets say my memories are fuzzy) after looking at the market fo QR codes now for 4 years, i don't think i will get rich with just that side project. QR codes just do not fulfill a…

Why is replycam all QR codes? What am I missing?

Re: Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written

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Post by wuest »

netcraft wrote: post #29
shawn-butler wrote: post #18

Cool, I like it and would use it daily. I sometimes use dropbox like a pastebin for same thing. QR Code transfer is probably patent encumbered (like well almost everything). Nokia has app to do this but in reverse. Look at photo gallery on phone in their app. When you find picture you want to see, open browser on desktop and see QR code. Point camera at screen and the QR code in browser is replaced by image from phon…

According to Wikipedia, QR code is free of any license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

Indeed; in order for any standard like this (or UPC, EAN, etc) to gain widespread usage as opposed to very narrow, single-organization usage, it has to be EASY to adopt.

This means that while the standard's official documentation might require that it be purchased (this is the case with QR), or while software which interacts with it might not be free/gratis, it must not carry with it patent or licensing encumberances. While ISO allows "reasonable and non-discriminatory" patents/licenses to be enforced against technologies which are ISO standards, something like a barcode format is difficult to justify licensing restrictions in almost all cases.

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

harel wrote: post #22

I use Chrome to Phone with my android phone. One click on a button sends the current url to my browser, or I can select any text, right click it and send it to my phone where it is then available on my clipboard to paste wherever. It also keeps a history of all this on my phone so I can recall what I sent last week. That feature alone is why I'll probably never own an iPhone. Edit: Still a cool extension you've got t…

And just for the record: for firefox users there is fox to phone: http://www.foxtophone.com/

Re: Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written

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Post by franze »

dmd wrote: post #36
franze wrote: post #16

if you like URL "hacking" you can do something like this http://miniqr.com/http://www.example.com/ http://miniqr.com/"hello world" does mostly the same as mentioned above, does this for i think now 4 years (i coded this on a beach in mexico, lets say my memories are fuzzy) after looking at the market fo QR codes now for 4 years, i don't think i will get rich with just that side project. QR codes just do not fulfill a…

Why is replycam all QR codes? What am I missing?

http://miniqr.com/reader.php uses the replycam flash camera (i own both sites, so i don't care)

Re: Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written

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Post by felixthehat »

harel wrote: post #22

I use Chrome to Phone with my android phone. One click on a button sends the current url to my browser, or I can select any text, right click it and send it to my phone where it is then available on my clipboard to paste wherever. It also keeps a history of all this on my phone so I can recall what I sent last week. That feature alone is why I'll probably never own an iPhone. Edit: Still a cool extension you've got t…

You mean like pastefire, the browser plugin that sends text to your iPhone clipboard, that I've been using for years ;) http://pastefire.com/
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